Sentence examples for instead are spending from inspiring English sources

These people, instead, are spending most of their time growing," he says.

The reason it's sarcastic is that we're not actually using it to attend college but instead are spending it on a makeshift strip club, which Finuccio's hosts after midnight.

Conversely, they are adamant that tax increases must not be part of any deficit-reduction package because they never reduce deficits and instead are spent.

Even our weekends, those supposed days meant just for us, instead are spent doing things: improving the house, fixing the car, helping others.

Steffen Damsgaard, chair of the Danish Council of Rural Districts, says the government should instead be spending money boosting the economies of depressed rural areas.

But the cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, who earned two of his five Oscar nominations for shooting "The Patriot" and "The Passion of the Christ" (one starring Mr. Gibson, the other directed by him), instead is spending his filmmaking downtime with the New York International Fringe Festival.

"When Boris Johnson should be fixing London's desperate housing crisis, he will instead be spending the next two years campaigning to be an MP and Tory Leader," he said.

You could instead be spending this time getting direct experience in what you really want to do or getting requisite experience from an employer that's a better fit for you.

Wenham insists that primal is only appropriate for those who have "enough feet in reality"—those who would instead be spending years on a psychoanalyst's couch, not those who need urgent psychological help.

She'd taken the day off work to make pancakes and drink whiskey, and now I feared she'd instead be spending it getting rabies shots in her stomach.

On Friday, I will instead be spending fun time with friends as the sun goes down, and the following day visiting non-Jewish family at an annual church bazaar.